Bloated plutocrats. Coffee.
Jul. 23rd, 2006 11:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Here's me guilt-tripping my holidaying parents like a big 'un.
Text from Mother: Have just passed the Arctic circle. Big pointy mountains in distance.
Text from Me: Great! Am just going to Tesco to buy an onion.
I do feel slightly ashamed. But I am properly happy that Mother is pootling around in the Arctic circle zones and seeing amazing things. She writes highly amusing texts too. She wrote one in which she called my father a 'bloated plutocrat' because he'd booked first class tickets on the train to Gatwick (so, much deserved censure in my opinion). And she informed me with glee that the toilet in their cabin had a notice on it that said 'PLEASE DO NOT THROW STRANGE THINGS INTO THIS TOILET'. Presumably boomerangs and the like. Star fruits.
I'm very tired, you know. I brought it all on myself. I went to bed at around 2am and then the small lady cat beast came at woke me at half hourly intervals by bouncing on my head and saying 'Brrrrrrrroooooow' until eventually I swore at her and she went to try the same treatment on my brother. Then I got up at about 8am. And now my head is all swimmy and I'm drinking coffee, which is not a thing I do very often, but it's kind of fun and makes me feel like a lowly reporter on a biggish newspaper. Huzzah.
Text from Mother: Have just passed the Arctic circle. Big pointy mountains in distance.
Text from Me: Great! Am just going to Tesco to buy an onion.
I do feel slightly ashamed. But I am properly happy that Mother is pootling around in the Arctic circle zones and seeing amazing things. She writes highly amusing texts too. She wrote one in which she called my father a 'bloated plutocrat' because he'd booked first class tickets on the train to Gatwick (so, much deserved censure in my opinion). And she informed me with glee that the toilet in their cabin had a notice on it that said 'PLEASE DO NOT THROW STRANGE THINGS INTO THIS TOILET'. Presumably boomerangs and the like. Star fruits.
I'm very tired, you know. I brought it all on myself. I went to bed at around 2am and then the small lady cat beast came at woke me at half hourly intervals by bouncing on my head and saying 'Brrrrrrrroooooow' until eventually I swore at her and she went to try the same treatment on my brother. Then I got up at about 8am. And now my head is all swimmy and I'm drinking coffee, which is not a thing I do very often, but it's kind of fun and makes me feel like a lowly reporter on a biggish newspaper. Huzzah.
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Date: 2006-07-23 11:30 am (UTC)Yay. Not a gunship. I think that's probably for the best.
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Date: 2006-07-23 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-23 03:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-23 03:05 pm (UTC)Hee! Beautiful.
Poo on being tired, though... except as it allows you to feel like a reporter.
Random: I am all impatient for Tuesday, because that is when you can watch more Lost. I am going to be ridiculous now and watch your Tuesday episode so I can try to decide if you will like it or not. Hurrah!
Oh! And I can use my Fire + Water icon now! Except that I haven't uploaded it to LJ. Damn!
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Date: 2006-07-23 03:08 pm (UTC)Tiredness is a bit weurgh. I'm fuelling myself with chocolate. It seems to help. How is your vile itchiness now?
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Date: 2006-07-23 03:19 pm (UTC)Oh! Also, I meant to tell you in a previous comment that about eight years ago when my parents and I had a big holiday to England and Wales and Italy, my Dad bought us each a great big first class Britrail pass, and I felt like SUCH an idiot tourist. :(
However, after the first train journey or two, I decided that I really kind of like first class because they have comfier seats, fewer screaming children, and there are porters who BRING YOU TEA. I admit it was actually the tea that made me fall for the first class wastefulness, though.
I think within a week I had a horrible sense of entitlement and I was actually quite pissed off when I had to travel from Llandudno or Bath to York by myself on a train that had no first class section. No tea on *that* journey... though there was a lovely little girl-child in a Teletubbies t-shirt, and that made up for it a bit.
Also I went from Durham to Wolverhampton first class once when I was really ill, but really I think the general bleakness of Wolverhampton made up for the opulence of my journey. Maybe.
I have babbled so much!
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Date: 2006-07-23 03:22 pm (UTC)2.14 makes me cry slightly.
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Date: 2006-07-23 03:30 pm (UTC)Wow! I never knew! This convinces me even further that James was a completely USELESS companion, for he never told me interesting-and-useful stuff like that!
I do think everyone should get tea served to them on trains, though. And I really, really want to ride on a train that has individual compartments... but possibly they don't exist anymore except for the Hogwarts Express (which is not real) and one or two old trains they use for period pieces on telly. Hmm.
2.14 makes me cry slightly.
I know; everyone is an arse in that episode. I have to tell you that I hardly thought about it when I watched it for the first time, though... I just went all irritable and grumpy because WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN? I am much too passive with my television viewing.
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Date: 2006-07-23 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-23 04:51 pm (UTC)Anyway, I am very impressed you have been in trains with compartments!
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Date: 2006-07-23 03:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-23 03:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-23 03:22 pm (UTC)(Actually I don't mind; it's sort of a random, never-really-appropriate icon, and anyway now I have the strange joy of getting to use an icon I made ages ago. It feels all ready-made and pleasant, like for once in my life I have actually planned ahead! Must investigate this 'planning ahead' lark further.)
Also I forgot to say thank you for asking after the itchiness. It is a bit less awful today, which pleases me. :)
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Date: 2006-07-23 03:24 pm (UTC)I am glad the itchiness is a bit less awful. Way to go, itchiness.
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Date: 2006-07-23 04:41 pm (UTC)Do feel free to absolutely not use it ever, for it is bad... but it makes me laugh a bit so I thought I would share my present-icon-making attempt.
~hides~
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Date: 2006-07-23 04:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-23 04:48 pm (UTC)Also I can't stop giggling.
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Date: 2006-07-23 04:53 pm (UTC)~happydance~ :D I am also giggling. We are having trans-continental synchronised giggling!
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Date: 2006-07-23 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-23 04:57 pm (UTC)I bet everyone in Antarctica is giggling anyway, just because it's so random to be in Antarctica, so maybe we can forget about them...
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Date: 2006-07-23 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-23 05:07 pm (UTC)I have a Photoshop thingy open with a disembodied head of Jeeves in it, and I do not have the heart to delete him! Very hard to tell him he has served his purpose, icon-wise...
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Date: 2006-07-23 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-23 05:14 pm (UTC)Look, we have had such a long conversation that the comments are all tiny and narrow! Yay!
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Date: 2006-07-23 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-23 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-23 05:53 pm (UTC)But I am hugely pleased you like your silly new icon. :D
Random: For ages I thought you only had the once icon, and then one day you used a different one and I was SO confused. I have a rather strong image-word association thing with LJ, I think.
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Date: 2006-07-23 06:33 pm (UTC)